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Sonic Mania |OT| Dreams Come True
- Thread starter Hot Coldman
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Beat the game. Then you can just select any level with the closest giant ring, beat it, collect emerald, quit out of level, and repeat until you have all seven. The game saves after you get the emerald so you can quit out right after returning to the stage.
Empyrean Heaven
Member
Anyone else a little miffed by Super Tails? He no longer glows, and they got rid of his flickies!
Got the normal ending.
Yep, this game got me into my nostalgia feels. I even turned the game to have scan likes like an old CRTV.
The only slight I have against the game is that it had to include one of my most hated levels in Sonic CD next to Wacky Workbench (specifically, 2nd to last level in the game).
Yep, this game got me into my nostalgia feels. I even turned the game to have scan likes like an old CRTV.
The only slight I have against the game is that it had to include one of my most hated levels in Sonic CD next to Wacky Workbench (specifically, 2nd to last level in the game).
He glows, it's just subtler.
Metallic Madness
Also, just how fucking huge is Flying Battery Act 2 anyway? I've played through it a few times, and since have watched some other folks' playthroughs, and it seems like every time I see some totally new pathway I had no idea existed. It's just nuts.
The Xtortionist
Member
Pilots???
Elfforkusu
Member
The joy-con 'd-pad' really hasn't given me any issues, even in blue spheres. Wasn't expecting it to work this well.
The Xtortionist
Member
Munch Poke
Member
Huh. Finally found a bug. I hit 100000 points in Press Garden 2 and after the extra life chimed all music stopped playing. There's still the noises from jumping and enemies but it's kinda creepy lol.
Skel1ingt0n
I can't *believe* these lazy developers keep making file sizes so damn large. Btw, how does technology work?
I can't wait to see a stitched together view of TMZ Act 1 soon - that level's intricacies are just insane.
That said, anybody able to explain in detail what the "theme" of TMZ is? Spoilers would probably be appropriate... I just don't really understand its name and I'm sure it's super obvious...
That said, anybody able to explain in detail what the "theme" of TMZ is? Spoilers would probably be appropriate... I just don't really understand its name and I'm sure it's super obvious...
Hitlersaurus Christ
Banned
It's a giant robot. If you look closely you can see it in the BG of act 1, and act 2 takes place inside of it.
Construction site for Eggman's new doomsday weapon, Titanic Monarch, which you can see in the background as you ascend. It's on Little Planet, a world chained to Sonic's world. Little Planet is also home to Eggman's base, Metallic Madness, as well as Stardust Speedway.
Green Mamba
Member
I've gotten this bug in both my Tails playthrough and now my Knuckles playthrough. The music comes back when you go into a bonus stage, but it's still really weird. Game definitely needs a bugfix patch.
I use the default Joy-Con analog, it works perfectly.
Well, the super emeralds gave extra features to already game breaking forms (Sonic and Knuckles' screen nuke and infinite air in water).
Tails didn't have anything with the chaos emeralds before, and the super emeralds just made him super as well as adding the flicky army (no infinite air in water). Tails didn't jump that much higher in Sonic 3&k, but he did fly SUPER fast while transformed. This game puts him in league with Super Sonic and actually increases his jump height tremendously, flying super fast, and gives him some after images + sparkles. I'm not that miffed because the chaos emeralds don't always give greater/crazier features....unless it's a dimps game.
Skel1ingt0n
I can't *believe* these lazy developers keep making file sizes so damn large. Btw, how does technology work?
Ah! That makes sense! Can't wait to replay it a bit tomorrow then, and I'll keep an eye out for those clues. Thanks!
Music question: Is the mini-boss theme (Danger on the Dance Floor) original to this game? Like it's an all-new melody that didn't exist in any prior Sonic game? Because it's seriously so good.
bizzarewars
Banned
Blue Spheres...
So hard...
Send Help.
So hard...
Send Help.
I'm not sure anyone's as impressed with this song as I am, but I find this astonishing.
Danger on the Dance Floor feels like a classic melody, like something we've cherished and loved forever. And yet it's... new. Some crazy talent goes into making something feel timeless the moment it comes out.
I have a feeling in my bones that Tee Lopes is like the next David Wise or something.
If you're a Switch user my best advice is to take it off the TV. My skills seemed to improve dramatically when the TV wasn't a factor anymore. I never noticed any lag with it before, but when those blue sphere levels get going fast I guess any amount is killer.
TheCongressman1
Member
I imagine it would, I just never use d-pad on any platformer.
Green Mamba
Member
I kinda wish the regular shields were gray for Knuckles like they were for him in Sonic 2 due to its palette fuckery.
I echo your sentiments
FeenixRising
Banned
It is a crying damn shame that the Angel Island Zone music is only 15 seconds.
Falk, get Tee to fix this atrocity.
Falk, get Tee to fix this atrocity.
The whole level takes place on a giant eggman robot that looks like a giant Heavy King.
Babymario26
Member
Is falk the same one who did the music for sonic before and after the sequal? and i could have sworn that there was a simular angel island on tee's youtube ch
Hero_of_the_Day
Member
Just had a weird bug. Got stuck flying around as a ball right before a boss fight. I can't do anything and the boss can't touch me.
Funny shit.
Funny shit.
I Wanna Be The Guy
U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
Not even an acknowledgement for getting all the gold medals.
StarCreator
Member
On Switch? It's an achievement/trophy on all other platforms.
It would be cool if the Switch version kept an achievement tracker to compensate for the lack of one on the system level.
FrozenCell
Member
I'm getting Time Over even during Act 1 of many levels
Which is a good thing!
Good job fellow forumite!
Yeaah totally sounds like some of the MJ tracks of sonic 3 (mid boss and knuckles theme).
evilromero
Member
This game offers the same addictive quality as Sonic CD imo. Can't stop playing. Though I think I prefer the open-ended bonus stages from CD and hope they come back in Mania 2. I'd even like to see a Mart Kart-style battle mode on those stages.
Kor of Memory
Member
Games has 12 zones, just like S3&K.
Plus, a lot of the later zones are super long compared to some from earlier games. The only exception might be Mirage Saloon. I don't know if because it technically has 3 different acts that they're shorter because of it, but I always blaze through that place insanely fast.
?????
Shil Pencer
Member
Please just remake all Sonic with this engine...pretty please and can you have it ready by like..i dont know...5 minutes?
Shil Pencer
Member
The game makes up for its sudden ending when you have all the emeralds
TheOfficeMut
Unconfirmed Member
Are you sure you're playing Sonic Mania and not Sonic 2, then? Because no way in hell are the levels in Mania simpler than Sonic 2.
I Wanna Be The Guy
U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
Agreed. Sonic 2 takes at least 3 days to 100%.
Rapscallion
Member
Just learned about the
Easter egg at the end of Studiopolis that references the
. I noticed it, but didn't make the connection. Hilarious.
This game exceeded my expectations on all levels.
buzzing
Sonic 25th party livestream
This game exceeded my expectations on all levels.
If this is sarcasm it's pretty well masked.
balladofwindfishes
Member
The date of the event is also on the screen.